CommuniQuest Incentive Travel Digest - Year 10 Vol. 1, Issue 179

Vol. 1, No. 175

TEE-OFF IN LATIN AMERICA’S TOP DESTINATIONS

Vol. 1, No. 179

DIRECTORY Visionary, Founder and

INDEX

Master Coach: Jose Manuel García, CDS jmgarcia@ividmc.travel President:

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Jose Manuel (Manolo) García CIS, CMS, CCM manolo@ividmc.travel General Comptroller: Trinidad Sanchez tsanchez@ividmc.travel

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Conventions & Venues

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Panama for M&E

Vice President of Marketing: Raquel Mijares, CIS, DMCP rmijares@ividmc.travel

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Corporate Quality Director:

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Julia Ortiz, CES

The best of both worlds in one place

jortiz@ividmc.travel Electronic Publishing: Alejandro Pech

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Panama’s luxury accommodations

apech@ividmc.travel Content & Editing: Omar Delgadillo corp.news@ividmc.travel General Director of DQuest Media: Israel Urbina iurbina@dquest.media

Destination offices

Cover subject: A world-class metropolis inside nature’s paradise.

Mexico:

Caribbean:

Central America:

IVI DMC² Los Cabos

IVI DMC² Cuba

IVI DMC² Costa Rica

Yazmin ELOSEGUI, DMCP, CIS, CMS

Alejandro DEBASA, CMS

Ligia VARGAS, CIS

Destination Managing Director

Regional Managing Director

Regional Managing Director

yelosegui@ividmc.travel

adebasa@ividmc.travel

lvargas@ividmc.travel

IVI DMC² Puerto Vallarta, Riviera

IVI DMC² Dominican Republic

Nayarit & Central Mexico

Ramón RIJO, CIS

IVI DMC² Panama

Jaime NELO, DMCP, CMS, CES

Regional Managing Director

David JOHNSON, CIS, DMCP

Destination Managing Director

rrijo@ividmc.travel

Associate Regional Managing

jnelo@ividmc.travel

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Director djohnson@ividmc.travel

IVI DMC² Cancun & Riviera Maya Ximena LOPEZ, CMS Marketing & Planning Director cun.planning2@ividmc.travel

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A WORD FROM OUR PRESIDENT. Dear reader, The event industry is going through radical changes and growing across all regions of the world. This fueling is expected to increase in size, duration, and budget for meetings. The reason we go to events, conferences, and trade shows are to stay up on our craft, meet new people, get new business, and come back inspired to love our jobs again. As IVI DMC² keeps learning, innovating and implementing our job’s daily experiences we are confident in assuring total satisfaction and over deliverance in our services and experiences. Our passionate approach and foundation are what confirms up our motto, in your business, “We make YOU look GREAT”!

Sincerely,

Jose Manuel (Manolo) GARCIA, CIS, CMS, CCM President IVI DMC² Enterprises

Our Objective: Always aim for 100% overall customer satisfaction.

Our Vision: Associates: Keep the ideal place to work, where our multicultural staff give their best, every day Customers: Offer an innovative high-quality service that exceeds expectations Partners: Consolidate our network of honest and successful partners Utilities: Maximize the return of investment to shareholders Planet: Inspire responsible resource management by means of our work

Our Mission: Serve customers through our international certifications ISO 9001 and ADMC; ensuring 100% customer satisfaction of incentives, conventions, and special events; providing memorable experiences in each of the destinations in which we operate; maximizing the return of investment to shareholders.

Panama for M&E

The business hub of Central America

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More than just leisure travel.

Panama, a country where the pleasures of the city, forest and beach are all just a short drive away. Surrounded by the sea, illuminated by the luminous tropical sun and rich biodiversity, Panama stands as one of the most charming destinations for M&E in Latin America. If that wasn’t enough, it’s a huge metropolitan area close to its main airport that’s just minutes from the beach and rainforest resorts, perfect for incentive traveling which gives guests the best of both worlds! Panama is a destination more than ready to carry out programs as small as a couple of VIPs up to the World Youth Day were over half a million tourist from all over the world toured Panama this year.

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Connecting you with the best of both worlds.

Labeled the hub of Latin America, strategically located in the middle of our continent. Boasting the largest airport in Central America, Tocumen Airport which is currently about to inaugurate its new terminal will be multiplying its number of daily flights. Tocumen International Airport is the best-connected airport in Latin America. It has the highest number of international direct flights, more than 132,000 a year, connecting all the major cities and capitals of the continent and reaching key destinations in Europe, such as Germany, Spain, France, Italy, and the Netherlands, through direct flights with Lufthansa, Iberia, KLM, Air France, and Air Europa. It also the first airport in Central America with direct flights to Asia flying straight to Beijing with Air China, to Istanbul through Turkish Airlines and soon to open the longest flight in the world to Dubai operated by Emirates. Not to mention tis superior sea connectivity, Panama has coasts in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, connected through the Panama Canal.

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Convention Centers & Venues

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ontinent where you can celebrate doors like the coastline or in the ma Viejo or the Old Quarter. Not isitor Center where the 4th floor r a closing dinner event with an Canal.

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w Convention Center in Amabeen designed to have a unique, rde, functional design, with mocoration and the latest technolongresses and conventions. When Panama will be positioned as he countries in the region with structures to hold congresses and ons with the top of the line the offered by the Amador Conventer.

on the south side of the Panama n Panama City, this project is he most important city projects y supported by the government.

93 million structure measures m² (nearly 635,000 sq ft) with a for 25 thousand people and will ng by later this year.

Megapolis Convention Center The new and modern convention center, located in Multicentro mall, and connected by a suspended glass bridge, provides everything you might need for meetings, training, exhibitions, conventions and all kinds of social events. Its 9 spacious conference halls with elegant soaring domes have a capacity for 3,200 people. Each hall room can be connected according to your space requirements. You can turn them into a grand banquet hall or ballroom.

Vasco Núñez de Balboa Convention Center It holds capacity for 3,000 people simultaneously and 30 banquet halls.

Figali Convention Center It holds capacity for 10,000 people simultaneously.

Convention Center

modates up to 10,500 people eously, with a theater/auditorium a capacity for 2,800 people ed into 17 rooms.

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Panama’s Luxury Hotels A haven long-kept secret among meetings and incentives planners.

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Redifining Luxury in Paradise.

Panama flaunts a variety of world-class brand hotels with luxury services and oversized accommodations. You’ll find ultra-luxe properties in the modernized heart of the city where Panama’s iconic skyline sits or by the beach areas. Here you’ll encounter oceanfront properties such as Playa Bonita or The Pacific Riviera. Some of them located very close to the main Convention Centers a few even showcase their very own convention centers inside their grounds.

Panama’s luxury accommodations.

Sheraton Grand Panama JW Marriott Panama The Westin Playa Bonita The Santa Maria, a Luxury Collection Hotel & Golf Resort, Panama City Dreams Playa Bonita Riu Plaza Panama Hotel Hard Rock Hotel Panama Megapolis Bristol Panama W Panama Las Americas Golden Tower Panama The Buenaventura Golf & Beach Resort Panama

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Serving the meetings, incentives, conferences, and exhibitions industry since 1986.

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CONTACT:

Dear reader!

Thanks for reading Communiquest Incentive Travel Digest I hope you find in this newsletter a useful tool that will help you make decisions for your successful business.

We would be delighted to know if there anything else you’d like to see or experience in this monthly newsletter.

Your suggestions are more than welcome.

We wish you the best in your endeavors and business adventures, and please, don’t forget, working with us “Will make YOU look GREAT”.

IVI DMC² Corporate office: Ave. Acanceh #1-01, SM 15 Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mx Phone: +52 (998) 287-1700 Email:ivicorp@ividmc. travel

Sincerely,

For further information on the finest hotels, deals, activities, and group packages mentioned in this travel digest, please contact:

José-Manuel GARCÍA, CDS Visionary, Founder and Master Coach

Raquel MIJARES rmijares@ividmc.travel

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Credo: We are those neatly attired people in the turquoise blue and white uniforms. Many people call us ‘’the Smurfs’’.

We are knowledgeable, witty, fun to have around and beautiful or handsome (not necessarily in that order).

We can run faster than Speedy Gonzalez, we can be in 2 or 3 different places at once, and are willing to do anything legally possible for our clients. You can find us popping up at airports, historical and archeological sites, deluxe resorts, charming hotels, golf courses, scenic beaches, and even at the best restaurants in town.

We enjoy Smurf teamwork because it’s fun and having fun doing our jobs is our passion. We can do the impossible right away - miracles may take a little bit longer.

Ever since 1986 we’ve been working passionately with the sole mission to Make YOU look GREAT!

CORPORATE OFFICE José Manuel (Manolo) GARCÍA, CIS, CMS, CCM President of IVI DMC² Enterprises manolo@ividmc.travel Av. Acanceh 1-01 Sm. 15 Cancún, Quintana Roo 77505 México Tel. +52 (998) 2871700

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